{"id":2136,"date":"2026-02-04T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/?page_id=2136"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:35:42","slug":"katrin-burkart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/faculty-staff\/katrin-burkart\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrin Burkart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f66f9956 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"154\" height=\"154\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burkart_Katrin_D7.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Katrin Burkart\" class=\"wp-image-529\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:240px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burkart_Katrin_D7.jpg 154w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burkart_Katrin_D7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burkart_Katrin_D7-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fe9cc265 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Katrin Burkart<\/h2>\n<p><em>Assistant Professor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> katburk@uw.edu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office Hours:<\/strong> Mondays, 4pm-5pm. Email to arrange.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Katrin Burkart, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. In this role, she works on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project, conducting research on environmental risks and methods to include exposure to suboptimal temperature. Dr. Burkart is also working on projections of future temperature-related mortality under climate and population change scenarios. In addition to accounting for rising temperatures, she is particularly interested in incorporating the dynamics of global change, especially demographic and epidemiological change as well as urbanization into her estimations and projections.<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to the University of Washington, Dr. Burkart was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York. Dr. Burkart received her doctorate from the Humboldt Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin, Germany, where she conducted research on the short- and long-term impacts of temperature and thermal conditions on human mortality in Bangladesh. She is particularly interested in understanding how temperature impacts are modified by regional, spatial, or population-specific characteristics. Dr. Burkart has published several papers on effect modifications by demographic characteristics, such as age and socioeconomic status, as well as intra-urban and urban-rural differences. In recent studies, she highlighted interactive effects between air pollution and high temperatures and pointed at the role of urban vegetation in heat effect mitigation.<\/p>\n<p>IHME was established at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2007. Its mission is to improve health through better health evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katrin Burkart Assistant Professor Email: katburk@uw.edu Office Hours: Mondays, 4pm-5pm. Email to arrange. Katrin Burkart, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. In this role, she works on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project, conducting research on environmental risks and methods to include exposure to suboptimal temperature. 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